Ultra-Low Power, Paper-Like Displays Jennifer Vail Senior Manager, Marketing
Ultra-Low Power, Paper-Like Displays
Jennifer VailSenior Manager, Marketing
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Electronic Paper Displays
Founded 1997, MIT Media Lab
Acquired by largest customer, PVI, in 2009Company renamed to E Ink Holdings
About E Ink Holdings
Corporate Snapshot
• Established, June 1992• Capital: NT$10 Billion Dollars• Employees: 6000+ worldwide• Core Business: EPD & TFT LCD• Chairman: Scott Liu • Subsidiaries:
– E Ink Corp (Cambridge, S.Hadley)– Sipix– E Ink Yangzhou– Hydis
The YFY Group
• Hsin-Yi Foundation• Shang Shan Human
Culture Foundation• Yuan T. Lee Foundation• Liver Disease Prevention
& Treatment Research
Educational WelfareTechnology Group• E Ink * • Transcend Optronics
(Yangzhou)Co.,Ltd.• Yeon Technology• Arizon RFID• Yongfeng Precision
Electronics• Foongtone Technology• BoardTek Electronics*• Effion Enertech Co.,Ltd.
Note:Marked * are listed companies
Financial Group• SinoPac Holdings* • Bank SinoPac• SinoPac Securities• SinoPac Leasing• SinoPac Venture Capital• SinoPac Asset Management• SinoPac Call Center• SinoPac Securities
Investment Trust
• TaiGen Biotechnology• Green and Safe• Ever Growing Agriculture
Biotech• YFY Biotech Management
Co.• Taiwan Global Biofund• Taiwan Genome Sciences
Biotechnology Group• YFY Inc. * • YFY Packaging Inc.• YFY Consumer Products
Group• Chung Hwa Pulp *• YFY Jupiter• Yuen Foong Paper• China Color Printing• Shen’s Art Printing* • Shin Foong Chemical• Guangdong DingFeng
Paper• Guangdong Zhaoqing
Forestry
Paper Group
Low Power, Bi-Stable Display
Sunlight Readable
Wide Viewing Angle
2 Product Lines
eReader Products
Non-eReader Products
Best Applications for E Ink
• Power requirements have made a display unfeasible– Novatel Wireless
• Form factor limitations have made the incorporation of a display impractical– Lexar
CST-01
Central Standard Timing wanted to “re-imagine” the wrist watch, and create the world’s thinnest watch
YotaPhone
Yota wanted to create a new way to access information, and save battery life, by integrating a low power E Ink display on the backside of a Smartphone
Electronic Shelf Labels
• Scratch Resistance for Industrial Applications
• Black & White + 1 color for POP
Large Area Signage
Spectra for ESL
• Three pigment system
• Black, white & red• For ESL applications
Spectra - How It Works
Aurora for ESL
• Extended operation temperature range of -25 – 60 degrees C
• For ESL applications
Mobius Display
• Flexible, plastic TFT• Developed by Sony • Transferred to E Ink for
manufacturing• First application –
Sony Paper Product• 13.3”• MP in 2013
Sony Digital Paper Product
• A4 size device which can be a digital terminal for many different services. This is different than a standard eReader which just provides a reading function.
• Complete devices weighs 358g and can provide up to 3 weeks of use on a single charge.
• Education prototype will be developed with 3 different universities in time for the second semester in 2013
• Sony will commercialize this in 2013.
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